OU PROFESSOR FINDS WAY TO RECOVER TRAPPED OIL

Michael McInerney, a University of Oklahoma George Lynn Cross Professor in the Department of Botany and Microbiology, along with a team of botany and microbiology researchers, has demonstrated the technical feasibility of using detergent-producing microorganisms to recover trapped oil from oil reserves. He recently presented the group’s paper, “Biosurfactant-Mediated Oil Recovery Is Technically Feasible” at the American Society for Microbiology meeting held in Orlando, Fla.

Large amounts of oil are trapped in reservoirs across the globe. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, more than 300 billion barrels of oil remain in domestic reservoirs alone, which previous technologies have not been able to extract.

“Given the unlikelihood of discovering new, large oil resources it is critical that technologies be developed to exploit oil resources that exist in known reservoirs to help meet the increasing world demand for oil,” McInerney said.

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